Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SJHSS)
Volume-3 | Issue-07 | 811-814
Review Article
Elements Lead to Identity Tragedy: The Voiceless of Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea
Guo Lei, Xuhan Zhu
Published : July 30, 2018
Abstract
Jean Rhys‟s best-known postcolonial novel Wide Sargasso Sea has always
been regarded as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte‟s Jane Eyre by shifting the focus from
Jane to “the mad woman in the attic.” It is a novel filled with tragedy and it inquires
into the production of knowledge about racial identity tragedy, especially the white
Creole women‟s identity tragedy. The paper attempts to provide a comprehensive view
of the “mad woman” Antoinette, who was caught between the control of English
imperialist and racial class tension in Wide Sargasso Sea and try to prove that
Antoinette‟s identity tragedy is the result of “being voiceless.”